Mystic Harmony: Part Two

03/29/20 • 4 min

No poem for this one. What happened? How did I get into this strange night club and what's wrong with that bass player? I try one door after another, dreaming of my escape. There are strange robots dancing together in this room. Door slam, this room is better. Someone has discovered triple meter. A side venture into blues, the robots grooving along. Perhaps I'm in New York City walking on the sidewalk above a subway grate feeling the steamy hiss. Cue the movie music, very late night edition. Off we go to a final cadence in dissolving tonic tonality, a final fizz.

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Mystic Harmony: Part One

Birdsong brings relief to my longing I'm just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please universal soul, practice some song or something through me! --Rumi

On a wandering path with some feelings of urgency. The reverberent echo accents the virtual chiff of my digital pipes.

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Bamboo In The Rain: Part One

No one can tell what's hidden in your gardens That only emperors may fathom joyfully. I lie here on an ordinary meadow. My answer here, too close to really see.

My mind goes wandering in Chinese gardens, Where sacred lotus flowers bloom in vain. I'll never see or touch those crisp, white blossoms, Nor thrill to rustling bamboo in the rain. “

from "China Gardens" by Liilia Morrison

Recorded in October of 2017, using arpeggiation from SpectraSonic's virtual synth "Omnisphere" combined with conventional piano and strings from the Kurzweil K2600.

Anyone who knows performing musicians knows that they are not always in their "right" minds, or in their minds at all. Here, obviously, I was floating above it all.